Migrants rally at NYC’s City Hall, want officials to make it easier for them to work | #citycouncil
Migrants rally at City Hall for better quality of life Migrants rally at City Hall for better quality of life 02:26 NEW YORK – Hundreds of migrants from African countries rallied at City Hall Tuesday. They called for a better quality of life, saying they want to be put to work, but it has been […]
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Chicago City Council weighs mayor’s ask for $70 million migrant | #citycouncil
CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is asking the City Council for an additional $70 million to support asylum seekers. A council committee was debating Monday whether they would approve the funding. Some members asked why this may be taken from the city’s rainy day fund and questioned whether they should spend more on […]
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City Council pushing bill to provide free mental health services to migrants | #citycouncil
Metro exclusive By Jon Levine Published March 30, 2024, 8:16 a.m. ET The new bill “would require the Mayor’s Office of Community Health to have at least one mental health coordinator at any location where refugees and migrants receive services from the city. CineLens/peopleimages.com – stock.adobe.com Big Apple lawmakers may need their heads examined. Newly […]
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Mayor Adams heading to Texas this weekend as economic toll of migrant surge weighs on NYC
Metro By Craig McCarthy Published March 22, 2024, 6:19 p.m. ET Mayor Eric Adams is heading to the southern border this weekend — just two days after dozens of migrants rushed a border wall in El Paso, Texas. The jaunt south, his second such trip to the Lone Star State since the start of the migrant […]
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Mayor Adams’ ‘right to shelter’ agreement will actually make NYC’s migrant crisis worse
Betsy McCaughey Opinion By Betsy McCaughey Published March 17, 2024, 7:43 p.m. ET New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks to media during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Mar. 16, 2024. Getty Images/Craig T Fruchtman Mayor Adams’ agreement, announced Friday, to limit the time migrants can stay in shelters at taxpayer expense, is smoke […]
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Mayor Johnson: City is “moving quickly” to vaccinate CPS students against measles
CHICAGO (CBS) — Four of the seven measles patients in the Pilsen migrant shelter have been children, and one of those four children is a student in the Chicago Public Schools – attending Philip D. Armour Elementary in Bridgeport. City officials would not say which grade the student was in at the school, and did […]
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams defends NYPD stun gun used on migrant holding baby in shelter
Metro By Craig McCarthy and Alyssa Guzman Published March 12, 2024, 5:00 p.m. ET New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended the NYPD Tuesday after video emerged showing officers using a stun gun on and punching a Venezuelan migrant holding his baby inside a city shelter. The cops “took appropriate action” to subdue the “dangerous” […]
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NYC spending $387 per migrant each day as Mayor Eric Adams tries to slash spending
Metro By Craig McCarthy and Emily Crane Published March 12, 2024, 3:12 p.m. ET New York City is forking out an average of $387 per day to put up a single migrant household in taxpayer-funded shelters, the latest data from City Hall show. That number — known as the “cumulative per diem” — is the […]
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Laken Riley might still be alive if it wasn’t for NYC’s sanctuary city laws under ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio, lefty City Council members: critics | #citycouncil
Metro exclusive details By Rich Calder Published March 2, 2024, 4:49 p.m. ET Murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley might still be alive if it wasn’t for sanctuary city policies pushed by former Mayor Bill de Blasio and left-wing extremists on the City Council — who have “blood on their hands,” critics told The Post. […]
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NYC slashing spending on asylum seeker services by another 10%, Mayor Adams says
NEW YORK — Drastic budget cuts across several city agencies are now canceled. Mayor Eric Adams said new savings on the cost of sheltering migrants will allow him to restore planned budget cuts and lift a hiring freeze. He’s now the budget magician of City Hall. With an apparent wave of a magic wand, Adams has made […]
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